They had nerves of steel and I admire their ability to construct these skyscrapers with no safety wear or helmets. One guy who looked like a photographer had a suit on taking a photo of the men resting as they eat their lunch. Truly remarkable.
Believe it or not, some people don't have nerves. We all have different skills.. some people actually enjoy heights 😅 Mortician is another scary job that some might enjoy 😱 Imagine being a first responder 😬 I'd rather wipe bottom's for a living 😳😂
Ash1one Don here’s another one: “through action, a man becomes a hero. Through death a hero becomes a legend. Through time a legend becomes a myth. And by learning from the myth, a man takes action”
1932: Men climb skyscrapers and risk their lives to put food on their table for their family. 2019: Men climb skyscrapers so they can be famous on social media.
@@dashboy4l yeah the picture was taken for that reason, but he/she is still right. They did for their family, they earned money from building this, their wages went to their families. We don't know their names and yet and idiot climes buildings to hang off it for Social Media likes and we know those idiots because we're on Social media is sad.
@@asher2297 Right the billions of starving people in Africa and Asia have technology that can gather food for them. Even here in the US there are tons of people living under the poverty line and do whatever they can to support their children. In today's world the majority of people live hard lives and that is an indisputable fact.
I’m a blue collar worker myself and we don’t get the respect and praise we deserve. If it wasn’t for us, the United States wouldn’t exist. We Build America and We Build The World.
@@Fernandoh183 If it wasn't for slaves (of all races) the US wouldn't exist. The tough truth is that America won't recognize the people that built the White House, only those that occupied it.
1MeanCyberbully uh, plenty of steelworkers do this today though, of course with lanyards however. They take their feet on the bottom of the beam and use their legs to drag them forward while holding onto the top of the beam with their hands
As a former scaffolding worker I know, understand and salute their pain, their joy and their courage. Unique job which not many can manage. Hard one and sometimes very rewarding one. I still keep some awesome photos that are, I can easily say, second to none.
Yes. A lot of other famous photos, you need the backstory to put it into context. A lot of other influential photos are shockingly famous for depicting human tragedy, suffering, violence, cruelty. But this photo carries its' own narrative, it doesn't need any explanations. This photo displays unreserved nerve in spite of the sprawl of social anxiety. It shows that the common man can achieve tremendous heights on the balance of character and fortitude.
I'm sitting on a chair at work on a concrete floor and watching this is making my stomach roll. Bravery doesn't cover it. These men were unbelievable. RIP to them all
Yes, they did and they worked hard for the little money they got paid. Barely any safety equipment to even speak of. People today won't even cut the grass or weed whack unless they have goggles on and leg protectors, or they'll report employer to safety board lol
Miles Ralls hard hats are to keep you from getting hit by a falling tool, or hitting your head against something and even knocking yourself out... They do a lot dumbass.
IMxYOURxDADDY that has nothing to do with my comment. I simply was telling him what hard hats protect from, as he said they'd be useless in such a job.
Their balls contain more steel than all skyscrapers in existence combined. Odd that such a flimsy beam in comparison could hold up under such weight. It must be magic or CGI.
Im a builder in the UK and have this photo on my wall at home. These men are a different league absolutely superb credit to the construction industry not known but never forgotten 👏
I could not have said it better. This gives me chills and sweaty palms when I see them being so casual, just sitting up there, chatting and doing their job. Hats off to these extraordinary men of history.
The courage that they had speaks volumes when your hands start sweating just by watching them at work. I would be clinging to one of those side beams hanging over the city streets with a death-grip even if I were wearing a solid secure safety harness.
riikerman have to have a balance. Too much common sense means you take zero risks Too little fear can mean early death Gotta 50/50 split it to gain the best results
I started as an Ironworker apprentice in '73 and I heard a Journeyman tell a young guy "hell boy I've been further off the ground than you've been away from home".
Well that was the whole thing about weighing risks was lack of options starve and freeze to death on the street or risk your life at the top no safety net? People who never had to make choices like that don't know what tough times really are if their choice is just off some restaurant menu.
@@hearsomeevil9199 says this to someone they have never met whilst also hiding behind a keyboard and sitting in a room they almost have certainly never left. Honestly why don't you open your horizon a bit you spanner.
I'm an Italian boy and I'm working in many apartments around the center of Milan. Today, visiting an old woman's apartment, I was shocked when this old woman told me that the fourth man from the left was his father. She was so excited and proud of him. And I was amazed at how beautiful the history is.
@@gh8vh He's telling lies for attention. Otherwise why wouldn't they want to name him and get into the history books. I see many many people like this online almost every day, just plain attention seekers.
The only reason why you might believe people going to the comment section to lie about something so pointless to lie about is if you do that or you have pride and struggle with other truths when they present themselves to you. There is no point to lie about having met someone who knew. What self-interest would that bring? He doesn’t know the name because he probably didn’t think to ask or he forgot. Ironically, the world is a darker place than you probably realize it is, but what you think is dark isn’t the darkness.
Apparently, the first person from the right is a slovakian man, Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič. He sent to his wife Mariška a postcard with this photograph on which he wrote, "Don´t you worry, my dear Mariška, as you can see I'm still with bottle. Your Gusti." Now this photograph is decorating their grave.
For years, I thought that the photo of the eleven workers having their lunch on the beam must have been trick photography or careful editing, because I knew that there were a lot of publicity photos taken. When I saw photos of the photographers balancing on the beams, reality hit me between the eyes. In these days of health and safety regulations, it seems incredible that these workers put their lives at risk on a daily basis in the lifetime (just) of my parents.
These men had more courage than I've seen. Soldiers, men at war, they also are people who defy fear, they don't accept fear. They just accept their missions and do them without blinking. Wow!
@@veravaladez1525 nah, hundret millions work hard in the eastern hemisphere today but no one cares, even in the western hemisphere millions of people work hard, no one cares...
@@veravaladez1525 Believe me, there are many courageous people in 2022. It's just that in the last 50 there was much less room for heroism. You know, easy times make weak people, weak people make times hard, and hard times make strong people, and strong people make times easy...
"It's sad that we don't know the names of these men" In a way, it allows them to become Everyman, without race, creed, culture or language dividing them. Almost any immigrant can look at that picture and identify with at least one of the men, and in that way, it forms a constant ideal of the national image, and what the US was aspiring to at that time. Even in 1932, this was sensational, and since then we have only become less determined in our focus to grow, drive and improve ourselves and more focussed on personal identity and wealth.
I wish but sadly people are all too happy to go "I don't see any of them being literally black so then they must all be white" As if there is no ambiguity about race what so ever, Today no less! after being an interracial couple being free for some generations and we're more racially mixed than ever before, people are totally comfortable assuming based only on skin tone. As if it doesn't actually matter what we are, troubles me every time
No it was more like this “maybe there was a reason why there names weren’t kept or why they didn’t bother to give their names because maybe we all can find a little of ourselves in each of these great men”
Can you imagine that if cameras and video recorders had not existed at that time, we would never have known this impressive image and the courage of these men, as well as the work of these brave photographers who risked their lives to leave us these beautiful memories of the past. Thanks for sharing the video.
These men are real men... not gangbanger, not pimps, not fame seeker obsessors.. real men who work for their living to get through life. To provide for their Loved ones. To take responsibility of work needed to be done. These are real men.
@Caleb Mayfield Great Depression was when America went very financially worse.Jobs were almost nkn existent.Banks closed.Business closed.It was a finanicial disaster.So these guys to put some food on the table for their families took dangerous jobs like these
35 years ago, I was a rookie supervisor in a brewery where a water line was leaking about 6 floors above ground. While we were figuring how to get a genie-boom positioned between the conveyors without taking apart conveyors and high speed labeling machines, our senior fitter climbed up to a 6 inch wide beam 75 feet above ground floor, and walked out another 50 feet to the job carrying tools and repair parts easily weighing 50 pounds... Billy Shields was 52 at the time. I watched in awe how he walked the beam, made the repair without a harness, then walked the beam back to the climbing posts and descended safely down to the shop floor. After that, I called him when we would shut our fillers down every week and let him pull a couple of bottles of beer off the line to enjoy if he wanted to. He was a stud.
To walk a beam without a harness or leading edge technology is something I couldn't imagine doing in today's age. Osha certainly wouldn't stand for it considering they were established courtesy of this picture. Lol
@@johngullo9420 - If I could have, I would have .. Whenever Billy was working on a job in my area, I would ask him if he had everything he needed. Occasionally, he would ask for a helper to hold something in place or whatever .. he needed the extra hands. With me he always got what he wanted, and when he finished a job early, he was done for the day because his work was always done right. I never remember having to come in behind him to "touch up" or repair failed work. Our workers always got 2 cases per month plus an extra two cases if their department was injury free for the month. My pipefitters were always taking home 4 cases per month!
@@axelsoncarla Sorry I'm a woman but I don't see "feminists" wanted all garbage workers, cops, construction workers, war draft etc to be 50% female? It's not equality if you only fight for more women CEOs and other indoor "glass ceiling" jobs.
@@axelsoncarlasay that to the men working in the coal mines... or the men who climbs radio towers to change light bulbs. Some of them are over 400 meters tall.
Here in 2024 watching this video of the brave construction workers in 1931 - 32 from the safety of my armchair and I'm feeling the butterflies. Brave men. 🇬🇧
I have looked in awe at this picture since I was a boy. For the last 15 years I have worked steel and iron. I have stacked 1000+ft broadcast towers and zip lines around the world with a helicopter and With everything I have done I have always known these men are the true OG's of the air. These men are heroes to me.
I am a engineer and my grest grandpa was on one of these photos (not the most popular) and he is my hero, because of him my grandma and my mom have a degree. Sorry for my bad english im from spain.
That may be true but I believe this photo is fake. Hoaxes are not new. If you notice the outline of the workers, they seem to be surrounded by a white glow, as if someone used an eraser to wipe out the background right around them. This was probably done so that with the primitive technology available at that time, the original background of the workers sitting on a beam could be replaced with the background picture of the New York skyline. So I am guessing the photographer took a picture of the workers eating lunch on a steal beam, probably inside the construction and probably a few feet off the ground. That original background was crudely erased so that the picture could be superimposed on the new background, making it look as if they are hanging in the air, a thousand feet above ground.
The STRENGTH these men physically had to have in their core muscles and posture to be able to sit like this. I can't even sit straight sitting on a chair with a BACK 😭
@Dhyananda Sadhu OSHA protects people but also they are big pansies that waste millions of time and dollars, I don't know how to feel about them. Beaurocracy I suppose
@Dhyananda Sadhu you too man. But I feel bad for the hard working people who have no jobs now, I know alot of food vendors who are out of work now. So sad, let's hope this passes soon because some people don't deserve this. (Some people do though))).
Jacob Greeson you don't know that, women had jobs in the industrial and commercial sector. Women worked just as hard as men to support their families, especially the men who where foreigners and had to leave their common-law wife/wife in their country to work abroad, in most cases the wife had to work to also help provide for their children while their common-law husband's /husband's work abroad.
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY You don't know shit, women didn't have these jobs back then. Men built the world. Almost every brick you see is something that a man placed. The golden gate bridge is something men made. 99% of the construction made in the world is by men. Its a fact. Men are biologically more strong and work dangerous jobs. While women biologically care for kids and make food. Sorry, but it's true. Now don't go spit bullshit and I want to see facts.
@@Sa.d.bo26 This is just showing a small % of people in that time. Most people wouldn't do this type of work even back then. Its like being Infantry in the military. Yes there were a lot even back then and today but you still had more who refused to be infantry and joined logistics or office work in the military.
What a wonderful video tribute to this picture. I have traveled the world, spent 16 years in the military and have worked my hands raw and bloody. I have this picture hanging in my house to remind me that no matter how hard I work, I still have more room left to grow to be the hardest working American man like these fellows. Thanks much for the video!
Benny C I wish I had A.C. in my car and home. Every summer I lose 30 Lbs. And every summer, I tell myself I'm going to try that Arctic Cube, but they sell out before I remember that I want to try one.
For anyone wondering why they would take this risky of a job, this was the Great Depression… most people took whatever job they could get regardless of the risk. I would take a guess that the men in this photo were just happy to have a stable job, which was worth the risk of death at the job. This shows us just how bad the Great Depression was.
@@carlose6010 the winds at such a height are strong. Id be nervous because of the sudden fluctuation of wind may get me off balance. Let alone eating and moving your arms while trying to remain still. Id be too uneasy to do it for a good amount of time. I tried satellite climbing for a light bulb change with my cousin who works in that field and there was a small portion where it was free climb and i realize i didnt need the harness too much afterall. I was less nervous as i thought until an abrupt wind came and i froze up. Ya ill pass on what these guys did 😂
80 years on, and I still watch in sheer wonderment and no less feeling of being sick to the stomach, what these men accomplished. If I'd had lived in 1931 and had the choice between working on these buildings or starving to death, I'd take the latter every time. I cannot or wouldn't be able to do any job involving heights. Any heights.
What strikes me about the picture is not only the courage to sit there, but the trust they have in one another, to sit there beside their neighbours, and trust that they are coordinated, will behave and not do anything stupid, and not fall and pull others down with them.
Forget about 1932....this is actually happening in dubai right now with bengladeshi, indian, srilankan workers in construction field....exploitation... no safety for their life....
@colonel 100 I'm not racist. But black folks in those times were servants. Not skilled workers. Couldn't read, let alone do math to build things. They were laborers, cleaned up, etc.
@colonel 100 I'm not going down this road with you ok. Blacks contributed alot but if it wasnt them it would have been someone else. They did alot, but buildings and construction was not one of them.
@colonel 100 you think white people just sat around and did nothing, all of them were rich and privileged, never worked or did anything. Minorities did it all. That's ignorant as hell. My family is white and never owned a single slave EVER. That was for rich people. My forefathers broke their backs building his country. They were poor irish immigrants with nothing. You know shit.
I can't even look at these photos without getting that anxious feeling in my gut.
Dol l I 2nd that!!!! Not enough $ on earth to get me to do that! And think abt their salary or hourly wage in 1930..WOW! Brave men!
Same.
Same here
That anxious feeling in your gut makes you stronger at those heights. The Brain and Body work differently under these conditions.
Lo mismo digo!
I hear that the building steel was made from the same steel as their balls.
FOSGATEXLT 😂
OMG haha I'm dying
Nah man the workers werent willing to tell the higher-up pansies where to find metal that hard
They definitely have the balls to do this
FOSGATEXLT
That was a classic. Now will the rest of you just quit, your not at all funny
up on those beams. poverty was their biggest fear. thats why they did it.
BIG LO aka the Great Depression
It's an awesome job too
BIG LO yea it’s true I work in construction up in Inglewood LA and we aren’t closed down, it’s Mandatory to show up
Aka the Big Sad
Big sad sounds cute
They had nerves of steel and I admire their ability to construct these skyscrapers with no safety wear or helmets. One guy who looked like a photographer had a suit on taking a photo of the men resting as they eat their lunch. Truly remarkable.
Believe it or not, some people don't have nerves.
We all have different skills.. some people actually enjoy heights 😅
Mortician is another scary job that some might enjoy 😱
Imagine being a first responder 😬
I'd rather wipe bottom's for a living 😳😂
Them: *smoking on top of a skyscraper*
Me: *comfortably laying in my bed and having small heart attacks only watching this*
🤣🤣🤣
ExCtly my thoughts
kkk. we became toooooooooooooooooo weak
@@eliseuhackbarth7003 indeed we did and I can speak for my self..
😂😁😂
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
I will keep this in my mind. You're right
Dats hard
Ash1one Don here’s another one: “through action, a man becomes a hero. Through death a hero becomes a legend. Through time a legend becomes a myth. And by learning from the myth, a man takes action”
Rodrigo M. *im 14 and this is deep*
wantafanta01 yeah.. like Jim Crow and shit lol
The guy in the middle:
*I have to pee.*
Dude's next to him
"Whip it out"
He knew Trump will own them later 🤣
🏃🏻♂️💨💨
Guy Next to the middle:
I have to take a shit
Was thinking the same thing😂😂
oops sorry excuse me ah my bad oh dear sorry
My knees were buckling just watching this fantastic video. What brave men, I couldn't do this job for any money in the world. 🇬🇧🇹🇷🇬🇧🇹🇷
WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD . NERVES OF STEEL 🙏🙏🙏
I feel sorry for your family then if you were needed to do that.
@@bigradwolf5001HOW HIGH WOULD YOU CLIMB ? ?
@@tommyrregina1227 As much as I need to feed my family.
@@bigradwolf5001ANY VIDEOS AVAILABLE OF YOU SITTING ON ONE OF THE BEAM'S AS IN THIS VIDEO ?
1932: Men climb skyscrapers and risk their lives to put food on their table for their family.
2019: Men climb skyscrapers so they can be famous on social media.
1932: they take a legendary photo
2019: they record their friends slipping of the edge of a skyscrapper and dying
Manuel Estacio it states in the vid it was done for publicity
There are still Ironworkers out there with massive nutsacks like these guys
@@dashboy4l yeah the picture was taken for that reason, but he/she is still right. They did for their family, they earned money from building this, their wages went to their families. We don't know their names and yet and idiot climes buildings to hang off it for Social Media likes and we know those idiots because we're on Social media is sad.
1932: youtube didnt exist
2019: people making dumb assumptions about people's hobbies without knowing anything about it at all
When grandparents said things were hard back then, they weren’t lieing
Things are still hard today.
Welch'sBeanJuice naw we’re spoiled today
@@asher2297 You might be spoiled but it doesn't even take a second to realize that life is incredibly difficult for 99% of people.
Welch'sBeanJuice we r spoiled cuz we got technology to do everything, and I’m also not saying 100% of people, I’m just talking about majority
@@asher2297 Right the billions of starving people in Africa and Asia have technology that can gather food for them. Even here in the US there are tons of people living under the poverty line and do whatever they can to support their children. In today's world the majority of people live hard lives and that is an indisputable fact.
I can literally feel the sensation of falling backwards just looking at that picture.
😬🤕
u made me scream
Or forwards
My brain would make me do this.
Me too! I’m built for a job on the ground.
I’m a blue collar worker myself and we don’t get the respect and praise we deserve. If it wasn’t for us, the United States wouldn’t exist. We Build America and We Build The World.
Thank you for your hard work
@@Fernandoh183 If it wasn't for slaves (of all races) the US wouldn't exist. The tough truth is that America won't recognize the people that built the White House, only those that occupied it.
Wrong if slaves weren’t brought here against their will to work for free, America wouldn’t exist, your not the only ones who built america
What a shame, no one knows their names. What courage they had!
@@1meancyberbully329bruh no it isn't that's possible
also there is a guy name Robert Halleun who claimed that one of the guys was him and this was back in 1966 a few years after he retired.
1MeanCyberbully uh, plenty of steelworkers do this today though, of course with lanyards however. They take their feet on the bottom of the beam and use their legs to drag them forward while holding onto the top of the beam with their hands
@@1meancyberbully329 you smoothbrain lots of people can and have done this idiot
The man on the right side: GUSTI POPOVIČ from Slovakia (village Vyšny Slavkov
This pic would have gotten a lot of likes on instagram.
it would've been classed as photoshop
LMAO WHO BUILT THIS😂😂😂😂
It would have, indeed
SonPlaysMinEcraft 😂
MEEE
Just imagine if it rained...
Larry Michael 😂😂😂LOL
Larry Michael rainout
RAINDROP SMOKIN THOT BOX THICC TACC
Or wind
They wouldn’t have cared
As a former scaffolding worker I know, understand and salute their pain, their joy and their courage. Unique job which not many can manage. Hard one and sometimes very rewarding one. I still keep some awesome photos that are, I can easily say, second to none.
There’s no way I could survive 5 mins much less one day up there. My admiration to these great man.
FACTS!!!!!!
Bruh I would have fell off looking down lol real chop
@@ernestboykin3rd706 no worries, pictures is fake
Just think about the fact that fatalities were almost a daily basis in skyscraper building.
Edit: not apparently lmao
It's a perspective thing nothing else
That has to be the most badass picture of all time
Yes. A lot of other famous photos, you need the backstory to put it into context. A lot of other influential photos are shockingly famous for depicting human tragedy, suffering, violence, cruelty. But this photo carries its' own narrative, it doesn't need any explanations. This photo displays unreserved nerve in spite of the sprawl of social anxiety. It shows that the common man can achieve tremendous heights on the balance of character and fortitude.
more than "the moon landing"?
@@jondoe562 yeah the moon landing was probably more badass
This picture should be dubbed og'z of the 1930's SMH. U talk about having a set as big as the Whitehouse these guys had them real talk.
The bas ass picture of all time is Pablo Escobar in front of the White House
I can't even go downstairs in the night without the lights on.
Me too
😂
Of course you don't, idiot. How would you see the stairs in the dark.
What does this have to do with the video??
Pha.x he’s comparing the balls of steel of the men in the video to himself.
I'm sitting on a chair at work on a concrete floor and watching this is making my stomach roll. Bravery doesn't cover it. These men were unbelievable. RIP to them all
Not that they needed it but those guys get my Respect.
ceewats wow 501 likes and 1 reply
What about the mowhak indians that build the totum pole
These guys made America great!
Yes, they did and they worked hard for the little money they got paid. Barely any safety equipment to even speak of. People today won't even cut the grass or weed whack unless they have goggles on and leg protectors, or they'll report employer to safety board lol
serbia991 What about it? It's not dangerous making totem poles.
Two things:
1. No hardhats
2. They're eating ACTUAL home cooked food
Magaret A. kr
I dont understand?
Yeah a hard hat would do a ton
Miles Ralls hard hats are to keep you from getting hit by a falling tool, or hitting your head against something and even knocking yourself out... They do a lot dumbass.
IMxYOURxDADDY that has nothing to do with my comment. I simply was telling him what hard hats protect from, as he said they'd be useless in such a job.
Their balls contain more steel than all skyscrapers in existence combined. Odd that such a flimsy beam in comparison could hold up under such weight. It must be magic or CGI.
urmaker u so stupid dont know shit about metal
Ea zγ it's called a joke, maybe?
Julius Fiorentino i d be trippin then sorry
I would have thought saying their balls contain steel would have been the giveaway. :P
CGI in 1932?
Working construction my whole life, I have this picture framed in my office, it doesn't need words
It's hard to believe that it's even real. I mean wow....just wow!
Im a builder in the UK and have this photo on my wall at home. These men are a different league absolutely superb credit to the construction industry not known but never forgotten 👏
Bless people like you! Without you civilization don’t exist. Thank you 🙏🏼
Stop lying
Hail 🙋♂️ to our white 🐻❄️ European ancestors...they built the greatest civilization the world has ever known
@@mariocooldude9092 yes sir dont you ever forget it
I could not have said it better. This gives me chills and sweaty palms when I see them being so casual, just sitting up there, chatting and doing their job. Hats off to these extraordinary men of history.
*Anxiety has joined the chat*
@@user-hl9er9bk6y You wouldn't get it!
*Pusyness has left the chat*
Balls have left the chat
Isacc Newton's Law of Gravity has joined the chat
r/woooosh
God, my legs turn to jello just looking at this pic. I like heights and thrills, but I doubt I could ever do this.
candiigurl7893 agreed, but it's a hell of a view up there I'd totally be down or up in this case
Lol me too
candiigurl7893 I would have fainted and fallen 😂
candiigurl7893 I'd shit myself asap!
candiigurl7893 -->>> me too, I had to look away for a moment.
🇯🇲🇯🇲 these pictures are recognized in Jamaica. These men are a prime example of courage and skills 👏
*when ur job is dangerous but u gotta get the bread*
*Faint Stalin laughing in the distance*
@@imperialguardsman5929 I like everything about you.
@@imperialguardsman5929 oh yeah yeah
Uhm... you do no that just cuz this was over 100 years ago they still got payed in money rite? lol. not bred....
The man's gotta do, what the man's gotta do.
Anybody else having anxiety issues watching this?
My stomach is doing flips and flops and I am sitting on the couch. Wow.
ME!!!!
No shit
Loads
Absolutely!!😳😳😳
I am also amazed the steel beam did not collapse from carrying all those massive steel balls at once
You're a little late on the joke hundreds made before you
FatalFinality you did him dirty💀
FatalFinality for sure thousands
Wow ...Good one buddy
@@QuietSpecialist LOL
The courage that they had speaks volumes when your hands start sweating just by watching them at work. I would be clinging to one of those side beams hanging over the city streets with a death-grip even if I were wearing a solid secure safety harness.
Fear wasn't invented until the 1940s
Not for the poles ;)
lol nice one
Because there has only been 1 world war. And just 1 war involving the U.S
1960s
riikerman have to have a balance. Too much common sense means you take zero risks
Too little fear can mean early death
Gotta 50/50 split it to gain the best results
Americans back then: I can build a sky scraper without shedding a single drop of sweat
Americans now: Whaddya mean imma not allowed in the walmart
🤣 "Allowed in the Walmart"
eVoLuTiOn
Fornax it’s evolving. Just backwards.
@@DIY_DISASTERZ i do want to point out that gen z has no part in this and therefore is the best generation for having patience.
Plenty of sweating up on the iron , the Red Iron heats up like a stove
How did the rail not break from the sheer weight of their balls!!
Feminists castrated them cause they too white and male
I'm surpised they didn't get rashes on their balls from dragging it all day at work !!
Joke ruined. Thanks right wingers😔
Can ya'll stop making shit political
because their balls a gravitational pull
I started as an Ironworker apprentice in '73 and I heard a Journeyman tell a young guy "hell boy I've been further off the ground than you've been away from home".
That picture is stressing me out
I'd have my arms and legs rapped around that beam tight pleading for HELP!!! convinced I'm about to fall. I have terrible balance.
Same
Just wouldn't do that shit. They probably made $1 an hour. I'll gladly make a sandwich
Me tooo
@@alexanderyoumans1688 in 1932 the annual income for an Ironworker was $581. So more like .29 an hour 😩
Am I the only one that is saddened on how much these men risked their lives just to feed their families?
It was the great depression, you did what you had to do. They look pretty happy they have jobs at all.
@@jasoncutshaw8401 you've prolly done nothing even close to what these guys did
Well that was the whole thing about weighing risks was lack of options starve and freeze to death on the street or risk your life at the top no safety net? People who never had to make choices like that don't know what tough times really are if their choice is just off some restaurant menu.
Yes
@@hearsomeevil9199 says this to someone they have never met whilst also hiding behind a keyboard and sitting in a room they almost have certainly never left. Honestly why don't you open your horizon a bit you spanner.
Imagine being the dude on the far left cant get off that beam unless the other 7 move out the way first
MrFlux Pavilion That’s why he’s lighting a smoke to calm his nerves
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s what I was thinking! That’d need to be me; I eat ridiculously slowly, so I’d just cause a blockage if I was at the front of the beam. 😅
@MrFlux Pavilion I can see your point, but there are actually 10 other men on that beam beside the guy your talking about.
Doonsbury r/woooooosh
Changing a 💡 for the ceiling is high enough for me
😀😃😄
😁😆😅
My mans on the right had a pint of whiskey for lunch lmao
Derty Hairy must be Irish
he was slovak. only man in photo to truly legitimately be identified. not irish, but eastern european slavic man. his wife give him bottle.
shot of courage to be up there
I wouldn’t want to get drunk up there
Derty Hairy 😂😂😂
I'm an Italian boy and I'm working in many apartments around the center of Milan. Today, visiting an old woman's apartment, I was shocked when this old woman told me that the fourth man from the left was his father. She was so excited and proud of him. And I was amazed at how beautiful the history is.
If you can find out and supply his name that would identify one of them.
@@gh8vh He's telling lies for attention. Otherwise why wouldn't they want to name him and get into the history books.
I see many many people like this online almost every day, just plain attention seekers.
The only reason why you might believe people going to the comment section to lie about something so pointless to lie about is if you do that or you have pride and struggle with other truths when they present themselves to you. There is no point to lie about having met someone who knew. What self-interest would that bring? He doesn’t know the name because he probably didn’t think to ask or he forgot. Ironically, the world is a darker place than you probably realize it is, but what you think is dark isn’t the darkness.
@@SRose-vp6ew Then why hasn't he replied to gh8vh in 3 months?
I see people doing it all the time for attention.
Who are you?
*her father 🤦♂️
Apparently, the first person from the right is a slovakian man, Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič. He sent to his wife Mariška a postcard with this photograph on which he wrote, "Don´t you worry, my dear Mariška, as you can see I'm still with bottle. Your Gusti." Now this photograph is decorating their grave.
Oh that would’ve put her mind to rest! 😳
Bullshit
SLOVAKIA IS THE BEST
For years, I thought that the photo of the eleven workers having their lunch on the beam must have been trick photography or careful editing, because I knew that there were a lot of publicity photos taken. When I saw photos of the photographers balancing on the beams, reality hit me between the eyes. In these days of health and safety regulations, it seems incredible that these workers put their lives at risk on a daily basis in the lifetime (just) of my parents.
Whatever the back story, it's still one of the most iconic photos of all time.
Ok bud, of modern history no doubt
one word for these brave men: RESPECT
Update: Thank you for seconding, guys. I didn't know how powerful a word was to the society until today. 💙
I certainly could not have done it
Kenny James A. Cubero that's the way things were done then no alternative this was the norm
Just like keapernick🙏✊
chito Im naw Kap’s fake
CRAZY*
Respect to people who worked on building the Empire State Building.
The photo is Rockefeller Center.
@@JPKnapp-ro6xm
Yeah but the point being the ESB is considerably taller then Rockerfeller
Humanity is better off when good men take productive risks. Do not be sad for them, do not shy away. Be proud.
I got sweaty hands alone from watching this.
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These men had more courage than I've seen. Soldiers, men at war, they also are people who defy fear, they don't accept fear. They just accept their missions and do them without blinking. Wow!
Unlike most men in 2022!!
this generation is to soft
And no politican cares
@@veravaladez1525 nah, hundret millions work hard in the eastern hemisphere today but no one cares, even in the western hemisphere millions of people work hard, no one cares...
@@veravaladez1525 Believe me, there are many courageous people in 2022. It's just that in the last 50 there was much less room for heroism. You know, easy times make weak people, weak people make times hard, and hard times make strong people, and strong people make times easy...
My knees are shaking just by watching this.
Exactly!!!!
That's true
Soyboys or wat?
Kyaw Khine I’ll make your knees shake 😉
Apáink veszélyes,kitartó munkáit tisztelet és megbecsülés övezi.Köszönjük nektek.
The detail of the photos are phenomenal. Never realized or thought how the photographers were out there risking their lives standing on only a beam.
"It's sad that we don't know the names of these men"
In a way, it allows them to become Everyman, without race, creed, culture or language dividing them. Almost any immigrant can look at that picture and identify with at least one of the men, and in that way, it forms a constant ideal of the national image, and what the US was aspiring to at that time.
Even in 1932, this was sensational, and since then we have only become less determined in our focus to grow, drive and improve ourselves and more focussed on personal identity and wealth.
Goddamn become a poet
Wow what a great point of view to look at it. Especially in times like these when we need it
I wish but sadly people are all too happy to go "I don't see any of them being literally black so then they must all be white"
As if there is no ambiguity about race what so ever, Today no less! after being an interracial couple being free for some generations and we're more racially mixed than ever before, people are totally comfortable assuming based only on skin tone. As if it doesn't actually matter what we are, troubles me every time
No it was more like this “maybe there was a reason why there names weren’t kept or why they didn’t bother to give their names because maybe we all can find a little of ourselves in each of these great men”
Well said.
That’s wayyyy tooo high
Raul Gutierrez Yeah, I bitch when Im up 30ft running my over head copper pipes let alone that. Haha crazy.
Raul Gutierrez, it is never too high
As soon as I'm off the toilet I'm gonna be the same
What's the point of putting innocent people's lives at risk for a tall building!!! SMH
You need to cut it
The backbone of the working world doesn't get credit for anything. Never has. Never will.
I can't even look down in our double decker bed..
Alice in The Land of Dawn Who’s “our” I don’t have a double decker bed. You mean “my double decker bed”
Brick Owens They probably mean a personal being 😶😶 Family, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Cat, etc.
Purple Alpha624 Yeah, i need a whole entire twin/full size bed just for my cat.
Purple Alpha624 cat would be most realistic
Hi fellow mobile legender
You have to admit, TIME Magazine produced some of most iconic photos the world has ever seen. Photos like these need to be preserved.
This photo first appeared in the NY Herald Tribune apparently, but I agree!
Democrats don't want it
@@xenostimif it was today they would replace it with blcks n girls 😢
@@flowrepins6663 wtf was this comment
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
LetsGoToMarsMan genius comment, I hope that's your original comment.
samy way It's not
So we're clearly in the "weak men" period right now.. Nothing but soyboy cucks roaming the streets of New York!
LetsGoToMarsMan It's an constant cycle.
samy way it’s a quote search it up
Can you imagine that if cameras and video recorders had not existed at that time, we would never have known this impressive image and the courage of these men, as well as the work of these brave photographers who risked their lives to leave us these beautiful memories of the past. Thanks for sharing the video.
Makes you wonder about the thousands of unrecorded history events we never seen
These men are real men... not gangbanger, not pimps, not fame seeker obsessors.. real men who work for their living to get through life. To provide for their Loved ones. To take responsibility of work needed to be done. These are real men.
LumberJack dnt forget not opioid addicted idiots that are slowly breeding themselves out of existence.
LumberJack 💯👌
The irony
IRON
These real men were killed at rates unprecedented from falling because of terrible safety procedures. Don’t glorify this.
My heart was pounding throughout the video. It still is.
Mine is pounding all the time. It means I'm not dead :))
Let me pound y
That probably because your not dead have you tried dying?
I wouldn't last an inch of a second on top of those beams i will be all sweaty and shivering in my wet underpants
I almost stroked out watching this.
Great Depression was a hell of a motivating factor in these guys' reasoning.
Caleb Mayfield Are you implying that he’s implying?
@Caleb Mayfield Great Depression was when America went very financially worse.Jobs were almost nkn existent.Banks closed.Business closed.It was a finanicial disaster.So these guys to put some food on the table for their families took dangerous jobs like these
I'm pretty sure the Great Depression happened during the 30's
@@sirloon3063 wasn't the empire states building made in the 30s?
Oh crap, you're right
Those men made America . Brave is not the Word . Men like that aren't made anymore. Bless em
Yes because they all died.
Some individuals did die tragically. There were always men waiting below to replace them. That's the truth folks. CMJ
How often was there a fatality any idea?
I'm not sure Mr.Dante. I believe there is a memorial plaque with their names at 30 Rock. CMJ
40% died. Like 20% became disabled.
Really. You sure? A lot of people will see your reply Mr. Slug.
Life is tough
They’ll never be forgotten. Their legacy is the amazing structure they built.
Ovo su radnici iz Jugoslavije.
@@banebakic Ozbiljno?
@@yamil.343
White men are amazing
Thousands of years from know they’ll wonder how we built our structures like we do the pyramids. They’ll see these men
yes, the structure they built is both ugly and useless. and they built it without any interest, just to fulfill sick wishes of millionaires.
They had more guts than the people in the next 50 years
Prasad Kharat As a millennial, I can confirm that. This was the greatest generation.
The Explorer no it was not, just because they worked without safety equipment?
Prasad Kharat Not really considering in the "next 50 years" was world war 2 which they probably went to fight in along with many millions morr
Prasad Kharat You know this was in the 30s right?
Prasad Kharat they did it for money. A man does everything for money and survival
Word can't describe a photographer a employee who work there . Nobody forgot them . They will always in our heart
Did that photo send a thrill up your leg and grab you by the balls?
35 years ago, I was a rookie supervisor in a brewery where a water line was leaking about 6 floors above ground. While we were figuring how to get a genie-boom positioned between the conveyors without taking apart conveyors and high speed labeling machines, our senior fitter climbed up to a 6 inch wide beam 75 feet above ground floor, and walked out another 50 feet to the job carrying tools and repair parts easily weighing 50 pounds... Billy Shields was 52 at the time. I watched in awe how he walked the beam, made the repair without a harness, then walked the beam back to the climbing posts and descended safely down to the shop floor. After that, I called him when we would shut our fillers down every week and let him pull a couple of bottles of beer off the line to enjoy if he wanted to. He was a stud.
To walk a beam without a harness or leading edge technology is something I couldn't imagine doing in today's age. Osha certainly wouldn't stand for it considering they were established courtesy of this picture. Lol
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing story....
I would have given him a case a week for a year.
@@johngullo9420 - If I could have, I would have .. Whenever Billy was working on a job in my area, I would ask him if he had everything he needed. Occasionally, he would ask for a helper to hold something in place or whatever .. he needed the extra hands. With me he always got what he wanted, and when he finished a job early, he was done for the day because his work was always done right. I never remember having to come in behind him to "touch up" or repair failed work. Our workers always got 2 cases per month plus an extra two cases if their department was injury free for the month. My pipefitters were always taking home 4 cases per month!
Thanks for sharing this story and his name, Billy Shields.
If someone started to fall, he would naturally try to grab the guy next to him. Dominoes.
That's what I was literally thinking haha
Shit would be crazy
BRUHH I LAUGHED TOO HARD AT THIS 😂
I'm an ironworker I'll go in the hole trying to save my brother with me up there. Not even hesitate
I swear thats what i was thinking
I get dizzy just looking at the PHOTO.
Absolutely unbelievable courage.
Nerves of STEEL from the unsung unknown heroes who built New York City.
same, seems so unreal they did that work. the real admirable stuff
The hardest workers earn the least amount of money
Rock Stone welcome to the women’s world
@@axelsoncarla Sorry I'm a woman but I don't see "feminists" wanted all garbage workers, cops, construction workers, war draft etc to be 50% female? It's not equality if you only fight for more women CEOs and other indoor "glass ceiling" jobs.
@@axelsoncarlasay that to the men working in the coal mines... or the men who climbs radio towers to change light bulbs. Some of them are over 400 meters tall.
Not necessarily. Being a programmer is really tough work but u do get paid alot
Rock Stone I'd they earned more then the people hiring them they wouldn't be hired in the first place
I would 100% get paranoid and drop
same
I would drop but do 100 front flips and end up surviving
talk about hash tag me too
@@MichaelP-ke1tm the only thing you drop is your pacifier.
@ you are gay
I think it's kind of cool they're not named, because they represent all of the workers, not just those individuals
you make a good point actually
Very very very very good point
My thoughts exactly
@@Njaewin have a good week bro
Agreed good point!
Here in 2024 watching this video of the brave construction workers in 1931 - 32 from the safety of my armchair and I'm feeling the butterflies. Brave men.
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It's so sad they're lost in history.
Videos like this are for not forget this amazing people. Wherever they are now, God bless them all
@@1997Bobson they dead
Everything is lost in history, how do you think dudes who build the pyramids would feel lol
True but at least we remember their work you know. It’s truly amazing! Their memories of work is legacy and will live on forever at least
Were all going to be eventually
Anybody else watching without socks on
Ayyyyy me
Damn I am
me right now lol
Me??XD
Watching this in school
As a construction worker. I have so much respect for these men.
No safety, no hard hats etc...Great video.. at least you are giving them the recognition they deserved.....well done
No safety nets, no harness. Finally, the original OG
How do they balance themselves with balls of steel that heavy?
Just like beavers balance themselves with their tail, they balance themselves with their balls of steel
The balls of steel are what give such incredible centers of balance.
Those steel ball jokes keep getting funnier
Your Neighbour yo tell yo dog to stfu
Saggy nutsacks! One ball on either side of the beam helps them balance 😉🤣
I have looked in awe at this picture since I was a boy. For the last 15 years I have worked steel and iron. I have stacked 1000+ft broadcast towers and zip lines around the world with a helicopter and With everything I have done I have always known these men are the true OG's of the air. These men are heroes to me.
I am a engineer and my grest grandpa was on one of these photos (not the most popular) and he is my hero, because of him my grandma and my mom have a degree.
Sorry for my bad english im from spain.
how much u make an hour?
Me too. Have that poster on my wall and I'm a tree surgeon.
@@marybrown7203 50 an hour?
That may be true but I believe this photo is fake. Hoaxes are not new. If you notice the outline of the workers, they seem to be surrounded by a white glow, as if someone used an eraser to wipe out the background right around them. This was probably done so that with the primitive technology available at that time, the original background of the workers sitting on a beam could be replaced with the background picture of the New York skyline. So I am guessing the photographer took a picture of the workers eating lunch on a steal beam, probably inside the construction and probably a few feet off the ground. That original background was crudely erased so that the picture could be superimposed on the new background, making it look as if they are hanging in the air, a thousand feet above ground.
The STRENGTH these men physically had to have in their core muscles and posture to be able to sit like this. I can't even sit straight sitting on a chair with a BACK 😭
OSHA be like, "I don't even know where to start..."
@Dhyananda Sadhu OSHA protects people but also they are big pansies that waste millions of time and dollars, I don't know how to feel about them. Beaurocracy I suppose
@Dhyananda Sadhu I know, it was just a general statement. Thanks for the history though!
@Dhyananda Sadhu you too man. But I feel bad for the hard working people who have no jobs now, I know alot of food vendors who are out of work now. So sad, let's hope this passes soon because some people don't deserve this. (Some people do though))).
As my instructor would always say... “yeh. that’s a osha violation”
Thanks to the New Deal and it’s legacy we have lifesaving regulations
The jobs men and women did back then to support thier families, without safety equipment and life insurance respect to all of them. 😮
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY it’s was only men doing these dangerous jobs. Women were at home or doing something like working at a restaurant
Jacob Greeson you don't know that, women had jobs in the industrial and commercial sector. Women worked just as hard as men to support their families, especially the men who where foreigners and had to leave their common-law wife/wife in their country to work abroad, in most cases the wife had to work to also help provide for their children while their common-law husband's /husband's work abroad.
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY sorry but it’s a fact. Stay at home women vs hard working men. Deal with it
Jacob Greeson if you're talking about the females in your family, well then that explains your perspective. All women didn't stay home.😛
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY You don't know shit, women didn't have these jobs back then. Men built the world. Almost every brick you see is something that a man placed. The golden gate bridge is something men made. 99% of the construction made in the world is by men. Its a fact. Men are biologically more strong and work dangerous jobs. While women biologically care for kids and make food. Sorry, but it's true. Now don't go spit bullshit and I want to see facts.
This proves the old generation had balls of steel
Thanks to there balls of steel we were born to this pathetic generation
@@Sa.d.bo26 This is just showing a small % of people in that time. Most people wouldn't do this type of work even back then. Its like being Infantry in the military. Yes there were a lot even back then and today but you still had more who refused to be infantry and joined logistics or office work in the military.
I believe they were made of titanium.
Wow the most likes i got 😢 i love it
It just proves that they were desperate and had no other choice
Magnificent History Doc. Thank you very much. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
To the anonimous guys, 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💐💐♥️
I get the chills & scared just looking at this.. 😬
Ross Best me to, I almost feel like I'm physically up there with them & Im so scared I might fall n all I'm doing is just watching this...so chilling
Justin coe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Life before workers' unions
Ross Best youre a troll
Ganke One Yea!
What a wonderful video tribute to this picture. I have traveled the world, spent 16 years in the military and have worked my hands raw and bloody. I have this picture hanging in my house to remind me that no matter how hard I work, I still have more room left to grow to be the hardest working American man like these fellows. Thanks much for the video!
zachary stotz Thank you for your service... o7
11 men spending lunch on a beam, 800 feet above the city of N.Y. I'd be losing my lunch. I just subscribed because of these iron stomached guys.
Now bitches and soyboys complain about the air conditioning not working.
Benny C I wish I had A.C. in my car and home. Every summer I lose 30 Lbs. And every summer, I tell myself I'm going to try that Arctic Cube, but they sell out before I remember that I want to try one.
I would lose my bowels
@Carl Haynes Fake in what way?
Even if that picture is fake, what's your point? What are you trying to say? That nobody really built the skyscrapers?
That could quite easily be 7 men in 2024. Storror!
They do their own photography too 😎
For anyone wondering why they would take this risky of a job, this was the Great Depression… most people took whatever job they could get regardless of the risk. I would take a guess that the men in this photo were just happy to have a stable job, which was worth the risk of death at the job. This shows us just how bad the Great Depression was.
These are true men, I salute each and everyone of you. I don't know your names but, you will not be forgotten.
Amen
Misconception what a real man is.
@@raffellorosenbergi9094 how
Ne ethada punde.. Ne oralde peru kona.. Pari erakkn verun
Yes I agree
As a window washer for skyscrapers, the harnesses are my absolute comfort. I would NEVER do what they did! Wow
You are lucky enough to have that choice.
@@carlose6010 the winds at such a height are strong. Id be nervous because of the sudden fluctuation of wind may get me off balance. Let alone eating and moving your arms while trying to remain still. Id be too uneasy to do it for a good amount of time. I tried satellite climbing for a light bulb change with my cousin who works in that field and there was a small portion where it was free climb and i realize i didnt need the harness too much afterall. I was less nervous as i thought until an abrupt wind came and i froze up. Ya ill pass on what these guys did 😂
@@Bryanseas Pussified!
@@carlose6010
So you climb skyscrapers? Im guessing not.
@@slumbdog5635 No, not many do today. In the past, these people HAD to.
80 years on, and I still watch in sheer wonderment and no less feeling of being sick to the stomach, what these men accomplished.
If I'd had lived in 1931 and had the choice between working on these buildings or starving to death, I'd take the latter every time. I cannot or wouldn't be able to do any job involving heights. Any heights.
I think you’d surprise yourself if you had to John
Especially without safety harnesses like that!
You should work on overcoming that fear. Doing so will be a terrifying yet rewarding experience.
@@ag49521
Now that sounds like a plan! You and me both, fella. 👌🙌
I'd of been a criminal during this time.
What strikes me about the picture is not only the courage to sit there, but the trust they have in one another, to sit there beside their neighbours, and trust that they are coordinated, will behave and not do anything stupid, and not fall and pull others down with them.
Early retirement, just a step away !
Michael Mendillo both metaphorically and literally :v
Haha that was a 2 minute laffer
Michael Mendillo LITERALLY !!😨😱
*Just a slip away*
Lol
Forget about 1932....this is actually happening in dubai right now with bengladeshi, indian, srilankan workers in construction field....exploitation... no safety for their life....
Are they american tho
You are right, modern-day conditions of slavery
@@simonbrown285 true
@@simonbrown285 who's the rat?
@@fbifib7327 Read the comment i replied to and you wouldn't ask that
1932 : Men eating lunch 800 ft from the ground
2019: People claiming 800 Genders
IRON HOUSE good god what have we come to
Times change you fucking cisgender idiot!
Xccrx Mothapo lol
IRON HOUSE You seem ignorant.
lolllll
The camera man never dies.
The forgotten men who built America!
BUT noooo, black folks built this country! Lmfao!!
@colonel 100 that's bullshit.
@colonel 100 I'm not racist. But black folks in those times were servants. Not skilled workers. Couldn't read, let alone do math to build things. They were laborers, cleaned up, etc.
@colonel 100 I'm not going down this road with you ok. Blacks contributed alot but if it wasnt them it would have been someone else. They did alot, but buildings and construction was not one of them.
@colonel 100 you think white people just sat around and did nothing, all of them were rich and privileged, never worked or did anything. Minorities did it all. That's ignorant as hell. My family is white and never owned a single slave EVER. That was for rich people. My forefathers broke their backs building his country. They were poor irish immigrants with nothing. You know shit.